mh says: August 22, 2021 at 10:23 am
“Tucker doesn’t suggest what that might be.
I don’t think it’s about Kamala.
I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
But that’s just a personal opinion.’
Alternate view to consider is that Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election Hillary is put in as President. She always wanted the top job and believes its hers by hook or by crook. The old dynasty will be back. Perhaps Biden was set up to fail. Afghanistan mess wasn’t expected to be so bad though and trying to blame on Trump is a big stretch.
The wanker demographic needs to understand what the problem looks like from a yob perspective, and the yob demographic needs to figure out what the hell the wanker demographic is banging on about:
First Joe assigned her to fix the border, whereupon she hid for a month. Then someone got her to say “she was the last person in the room before President Joe Biden made the decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan”. Then Afghanistan melted down, whereupon she’s gone to ground again and refuses to make any statement on the mess. In the middle of all this she managed a trip to Vietnam just as the policy she signed off on became Vietnam v2.0.
Now she’s apparently going to campaign for Cali Gov. Newsom in the recall election. Is this a kiss of death? Maybe she should audition to replace Scarlett as the Black Widow.
≫Alternate view to consider is that Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election Hillary is put in as President.≪
Apparently Kamala was nowhere to be found either, so he wound up talking with ex-SecState Hillary. Which begs the question where was the current SecState? Or Pelosi for that matter? And why is a private person talking to the PM of Canada as official representative of the WH in middle of a crisis?
min, yes, there are so many parts to being human, which even the ancients understood, but has no bearing on the decisions of our “leaders and betters,” for our own good.
I understand exactly what you are saying. We think our other senses hold sway – sight, especially, and hearing, with the others somewhat understood as optional – I could live well enough, I suppose, if I could not smell or taste.
But without touch I am no different to an automaton, which may “see” with cameras and “hear” through microphones and has no use for taste or smell.
One of the group Queen’s songs has a line: “I want it all and I want it now.” I don’t think when this is over that I will settle for less.
BBS at 11:15. I have effectively lost my ability to eat normally. My swallowing muscles deteriorate to the point it becomes dangerous after about 25 minutes. I can eat a pie over. about an hour in two sessions after cutting it up into little pieces, like you would do for a small child.
I would rate this loss as being up there with being able to walk normal distances. You don’t realise the importance of food to social interaction till it goes.
” what is lacking is touch as last hug I had was weeks ago.”
Min, yes, even a virtual hug, whilst nice, doesn’t quite cut it. And I guess they don’t allow a massage therapist either. I enjoy getting a therapeutic massage every few months, definitely medical only. Once on holidays I called a local therapist at her home, decided she was legit and booked an appointment. She turned out to be excellent, and told me that most of her clientele were older people who simply lacked physical touch in their lives. I think that therapeutic ‘companion animals’, what we simply call our pets at home, can offer that sense of physical contact too.
I see my little two year old grandson in the park with his dad as we all go for a walk ‘socially distancing’. At the park it is nice to at least push him in his little baby seat on the swings, as we can touch the back of the seat to do so. It almost feels like touching him, even though it isn’t. We have to play by the rules there, but at least we can see him regularly and marvel at his achievement milestones, week by week.
I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
But that’s just a personal opinion.
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I tend to think CNN and left media are trying to have Biden seen as incompetent and stubborn and having personally “failed” and not a dangerous demented old man installed by the Dems who directly caused a humanitarian disaster and the world watching. Better have him go as “failed” rather than demented and they all knew and were covering.
The way he fixates on little girls in an audience until someone puts the child on his lap and he sticks his head in her hair is atrocious. Maybe it is all snowballing.
Doctors dare to denounce Cuba’s sacred health system
Stephen Gibbs, Caracas
Sunday August 22 2021, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times
Fidel Castro visiting Matanzas hospital in Cuba in 1988. Healthcare workers have been alienated during the pandemic
Most were wearing their white coats. All gave their full names. One by one last week, dozens of Cuban medical workers took aim at one of the pillars of the revolution.
“I want to denounce the collapse of our health system in our hospital and many others . . . This is the reality in which we are living today,” Dr Héctor Santiesteban Fuentes, a surgeon at the Lenin hospital in the city of Holguin, said in a recorded mobile phone video. Aware that the government labels its critics as “mercenaries”, he stressed that no one had paid him to make his declaration.
Another doctor, Yuliet Consuegra Leyva, complained that underpaid and overworked staff were “mistreated every day” by the authorities. “And actually we are the ones sustaining this country,” she said. The denunciations were uploaded on to Cuban social media, drawing shock and admiration. In
Cuba open dissent by state employees — especially doctors — is almost unheard of. Most public criticism is forbidden.
But these are unprecedented times. Last month, for the first time since the 1959 revolution, thousands took to the streets in at least 14 cities in anger at repression, inequality, shortages, power cuts and the handling of Covid-19.
The pandemic has vividly exposed the precarious state of the health service, long the country’s most vaunted achievement. When the Soviet Union was pouring in billions of dollars of subsidies, Cuba’s healthcare was widely seen as a model for the developing world. But hard economic realities, especially over the past two years, have meant the system is ever more threadbare.
Harrowing stories have emerged from hospitals as the Delta variant rips through the country. Rates of infections and deaths are the highest in the Americas region. After keeping cumulative coronavirus cases below 15,000 last year, Cuba now has had more than half a million infections, according to, according to its ministry of health. It has declined to import vaccines and instead developed its own. It says they are highly effective, but the rollout is sluggish.
This month, as the surge worsened, patients and doctors began reporting shortages of basics including oxygen, personal protective equipment, antibiotics and Covid tests. Calls were made to Russia, China and regional allies for donations, which have just begun to arrive.
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Wasn’t there somebody here, who extolled the virtues, of the Cuban Health system?
I haven’t had a chance to catch up with all the cats yet, but even if this has been posted, it deserves many more airings, all over the world –
Tucker Carlson Mocks Daniel Andrews
Australia is the laughing stock of the world thanks to Dan & Brett’s “science”
Health Hazard is one arrogant prick, and that fat pig Wobblebois telling us what is and is not exercise. None of these pricks have had anything happen to them in loss of wages or jobs, they in their own bubble and expect you to do what your told.
I would rate this loss as being up there with being able to walk normal distances. You don’t realise the importance of food to social interaction till it goes.
Bear,
the things that we experience through the physical side of our selves and which we probably take for granted because we’re busy or self-absorbed or not living in the moment, and then only fully understood when lost, whether through illness, injury or because the state decides one day that none of that stuff is important anymore.
Meals, together, sort of sum it up. Encompassing every part of the human self in touch, taste, smell, sight and sound.
The other night MT was talking about what he was having for dinner and which he’d cooked, and it sounded delicious. I wanted to be invited; I suppose part of it was to be sitting at a table with another, drinking a nice red and enjoying all of it. Memories help, and friends; even ones on-line. 👍
The “pandemic” has revealed a truth hitherto only known by lawyers but now plain to anyone paying attention: without a properly drafted Bill of Rights Australians have very few rights guaranteed by law.</blockquote>
How about if we rely on Section 303 of Part 7.62 (attempted repealed by J.W. Howard)?
Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).
We are at the end times – the real end times – not that “beam me up, scotty,” nonsense. Biden is gone both in mental ability and in electoral support. The Dems will be cowered in Congress and in the Senate. That’s not to say that they still won’t try things on the electorate but the voters have, in the main, like here, stopped listening. Trump will be back and he will have learnt a lot in his four year hiatus. Get ready for Super Duper Trump!
Is there anything in the pipeline to either extend or do away with these powers?
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You mean like parliamentary democracy?
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mh says:
August 22, 2021 at 10:23 am
“Tucker doesn’t suggest what that might be.
I don’t think it’s about Kamala.
I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
But that’s just a personal opinion.’
Alternate view to consider is that Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election Hillary is put in as President. She always wanted the top job and believes its hers by hook or by crook. The old dynasty will be back. Perhaps Biden was set up to fail. Afghanistan mess wasn’t expected to be so bad though and trying to blame on Trump is a big stretch.
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Australia is a world class laughing stock. Just imagine what we could have done with KRuddy as Sec-Gen of the UN.
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The wanker demographic needs to understand what the problem looks like from a yob perspective, and the yob demographic needs to figure out what the hell the wanker demographic is banging on about:
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Uncle Tony’s Garage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVnHhDldJM
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Ruprecht says:
August 22, 2021 at 9:41 am
😉.
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Is “holier than thou” a form of narcissism?
Gaslighting and goalpost shifting seems to go hand in hand.
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Australia is a world class laughing stock.
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notafan says:
March 22, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Fanciful stuff.
Anyone going street to street distributing holy communion in a pandemic would be a moron.
That would be a complete overriding of social distancing.
Just stupid.
Catholics have the option of ‘spiritual Communion’
There are many times in history when people have not been able to attend mass etc.
We can deal.
It is very sad that people will have to forgo funerals.
And I’m very sorry for those whose weddings have been cancelled.
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≫I don’t think it’s about Kamala.≪
Lots of interesting dynamics between those two.
First Joe assigned her to fix the border, whereupon she hid for a month. Then someone got her to say “she was the last person in the room before President Joe Biden made the decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan”. Then Afghanistan melted down, whereupon she’s gone to ground again and refuses to make any statement on the mess. In the middle of all this she managed a trip to Vietnam just as the policy she signed off on became Vietnam v2.0.
Now she’s apparently going to campaign for Cali Gov. Newsom in the recall election. Is this a kiss of death? Maybe she should audition to replace Scarlett as the Black Widow.
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Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election Hillary is put in as President
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The Hildebeast isn’t in the line of succession, if they got rid willy browns cumdumpster it would then go to the speaker, granny Rictus McBotox.
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Bear
Foolishly, I did resort to the memory of parliamentary democaracy.
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A present from Santa is a better bet than PROJECTILES from government or health officials ??
FIFY
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Only thing you had to say when Ernie died.
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“Ernie and Ding Dong” was all we heard in Sydney – Ding Dong being the better known as a former Go Go dancer.
Ditto their record.
Melbourne has always been daggy – the Moomba festival being testament, cardigan.
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the yob demographic needs to figure out what the hell the wanker demographic is banging on about
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Chattering class midwits?
Yawn.
Lockdowns are just the latest iteration of Far Left Bob Brown’s carbon “price signal” to the lumpen proletariat.
Enabled by concerned Science tards.
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Is “holier than thou” a form of narcissism?
Could be, but I’d call it a delusion. No one’s perfect.
Carpe, I think Mme PompaPerm will get the Top Job. No wonder Caramela looks anxious.
Accidents Happen. Tragedies Happen.
Which reminds me, how’s BidenLotto going?
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≫Alternate view to consider is that Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election Hillary is put in as President.≪
A lot going for that scenario Min.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Says He Spoke with Hillary Clinton About Afghanistan as Biden Hid at Camp David (19 Aug)
Apparently Kamala was nowhere to be found either, so he wound up talking with ex-SecState Hillary. Which begs the question where was the current SecState? Or Pelosi for that matter? And why is a private person talking to the PM of Canada as official representative of the WH in middle of a crisis?
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min, yes, there are so many parts to being human, which even the ancients understood, but has no bearing on the decisions of our “leaders and betters,” for our own good.
I understand exactly what you are saying. We think our other senses hold sway – sight, especially, and hearing, with the others somewhat understood as optional – I could live well enough, I suppose, if I could not smell or taste.
But without touch I am no different to an automaton, which may “see” with cameras and “hear” through microphones and has no use for taste or smell.
One of the group Queen’s songs has a line: “I want it all and I want it now.” I don’t think when this is over that I will settle for less.
To you, I send my best wishes and a big hug!
BBS
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Arky @ 10:54 yobs have no interest in the others.
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Foolishly, I did resort to the memory of parliamentary democaracy.
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Seems a long time ago. Doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing it any time soon either.
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
August 22, 2021 at 11:19 am
Arky @ 10:54 yobs have no interest in the others.”
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I only put the second line in because I thought I was posting on the Wanker Cat.
Sorry yobs.
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Lockdowns are just the latest iteration of Far Left Bob Brown’s carbon “price signal” to the lumpen proletariat.
Enabled by concerned Science tards.
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I.e. lockdowns… enabled by concerned ‘Elf tards.
Rinse and repeat.
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Week In Pictures.
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BBS at 11:15. I have effectively lost my ability to eat normally. My swallowing muscles deteriorate to the point it becomes dangerous after about 25 minutes. I can eat a pie over. about an hour in two sessions after cutting it up into little pieces, like you would do for a small child.
I would rate this loss as being up there with being able to walk normal distances. You don’t realise the importance of food to social interaction till it goes.
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egg_ says:
August 22, 2021 at 10:09 am
RE: Holden
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Hear, Hear!
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Looks like Cate is the sTan Grant of the wanker blog.
Grunts of the Caesarean “noble sacrifice” grappling with Afghanistan?
Trump basically outed the Deep State as black ops in 911 as soon as he became Prez (happy to link, it was an interview with ABC).
The Deep State cut a deal with the (CIA created) Taliban (of the Iran-Ira war era)?
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Pope Francis makes decisive intervention in Afghanistan debacle:
Calls for “dialogue”.
In the 1980s we had Pope JPII, Reagan & Thatcher.
Now we have Francis, Joe and Boris.
Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).
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WIP link stolen from the wanker blog 🙂
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More pilfering
I know the REAL reason Tesla is building human robots!
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” what is lacking is touch as last hug I had was weeks ago.”
Min, yes, even a virtual hug, whilst nice, doesn’t quite cut it. And I guess they don’t allow a massage therapist either. I enjoy getting a therapeutic massage every few months, definitely medical only. Once on holidays I called a local therapist at her home, decided she was legit and booked an appointment. She turned out to be excellent, and told me that most of her clientele were older people who simply lacked physical touch in their lives. I think that therapeutic ‘companion animals’, what we simply call our pets at home, can offer that sense of physical contact too.
I see my little two year old grandson in the park with his dad as we all go for a walk ‘socially distancing’. At the park it is nice to at least push him in his little baby seat on the swings, as we can touch the back of the seat to do so. It almost feels like touching him, even though it isn’t. We have to play by the rules there, but at least we can see him regularly and marvel at his achievement milestones, week by week.
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As usual, the _roomba is a day late and a dollar short.
The third time the WIP’s been posted.
Still totally confused, mixing up who is who and missing various points along the way.
Intellectual lightweight. Physical heavyweight. You must have been on the Chiko Rolls when the other two WIPs were put up.
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I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
But that’s just a personal opinion.
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I tend to think CNN and left media are trying to have Biden seen as incompetent and stubborn and having personally “failed” and not a dangerous demented old man installed by the Dems who directly caused a humanitarian disaster and the world watching. Better have him go as “failed” rather than demented and they all knew and were covering.
The way he fixates on little girls in an audience until someone puts the child on his lap and he sticks his head in her hair is atrocious. Maybe it is all snowballing.
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Donald Trump says he knows who was ‘behind’ 9/11 as he attacks Bush – ‘It was NOT Iraq’
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Doctors dare to denounce Cuba’s sacred health system
Stephen Gibbs, Caracas
Sunday August 22 2021, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times
Fidel Castro visiting Matanzas hospital in Cuba in 1988. Healthcare workers have been alienated during the pandemic
Most were wearing their white coats. All gave their full names. One by one last week, dozens of Cuban medical workers took aim at one of the pillars of the revolution.
“I want to denounce the collapse of our health system in our hospital and many others . . . This is the reality in which we are living today,” Dr Héctor Santiesteban Fuentes, a surgeon at the Lenin hospital in the city of Holguin, said in a recorded mobile phone video. Aware that the government labels its critics as “mercenaries”, he stressed that no one had paid him to make his declaration.
Another doctor, Yuliet Consuegra Leyva, complained that underpaid and overworked staff were “mistreated every day” by the authorities. “And actually we are the ones sustaining this country,” she said. The denunciations were uploaded on to Cuban social media, drawing shock and admiration. In
Cuba open dissent by state employees — especially doctors — is almost unheard of. Most public criticism is forbidden.
But these are unprecedented times. Last month, for the first time since the 1959 revolution, thousands took to the streets in at least 14 cities in anger at repression, inequality, shortages, power cuts and the handling of Covid-19.
The pandemic has vividly exposed the precarious state of the health service, long the country’s most vaunted achievement. When the Soviet Union was pouring in billions of dollars of subsidies, Cuba’s healthcare was widely seen as a model for the developing world. But hard economic realities, especially over the past two years, have meant the system is ever more threadbare.
Harrowing stories have emerged from hospitals as the Delta variant rips through the country. Rates of infections and deaths are the highest in the Americas region. After keeping cumulative coronavirus cases below 15,000 last year, Cuba now has had more than half a million infections, according to, according to its ministry of health. It has declined to import vaccines and instead developed its own. It says they are highly effective, but the rollout is sluggish.
This month, as the surge worsened, patients and doctors began reporting shortages of basics including oxygen, personal protective equipment, antibiotics and Covid tests. Calls were made to Russia, China and regional allies for donations, which have just begun to arrive.
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Wasn’t there somebody here, who extolled the virtues, of the Cuban Health system?
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Unexpected Link Between Earth Rotation and Great Oxygenation Event
Anton Petrov
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The third time the WIP’s been posted.
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“When too much… is never enough”, Cate?
Hard at work cross posting on two blogs, old girl?
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Whoops! Just saw Cold-Hands had posted WIP first back in the early hours, pre Mater’s ballistics post.
My favourite
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Less interesting and relevant than listening to a vacuum cleaner salesman.
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or a vacuum cleaner
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Dishonourable mention
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Bradley Murdoch just died in prison.
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<i>I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
But that’s just a personal opinion.</i>
What about Biden in a slow moving convertible rolling down the main drag in Scranton, Ohio. BANG! It’s a win,win,win,win…
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Flipping between Flash-Cat and Dash-Cat.
Dash-Cat improves with the lack of Bird.
Both are worthwhile now. Spirited competition always good.
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Mater says:
August 22, 2021 at 4:31 am
Thanks Mater. I did warn people this was coming. I linked to info on what VicPol (and the rest of them), would be using against the people.
I’m glad you managed to get the message through.
Yes, the difference between conspiracy theories & facts is only time.
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Oh good. We have a stamp of approval from a forum flitter and all round doer of good , but often mentioned deeds.
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Test
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I haven’t had a chance to catch up with all the cats yet, but even if this has been posted, it deserves many more airings, all over the world –
Tucker Carlson Mocks Daniel Andrews
Australia is the laughing stock of the world thanks to Dan & Brett’s “science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWhMKLr8djE
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*chuckles
https://twitter.com/CCPSocCredScore/status/1428918568150700041
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Health Hazard is one arrogant prick, and that fat pig Wobblebois telling us what is and is not exercise. None of these pricks have had anything happen to them in loss of wages or jobs, they in their own bubble and expect you to do what your told.
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Do bears shit in the blog?
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Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).
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A “Troofer” cleaning up International relations?
The Deep State would have none of that!
Trump only partially released the Warren Commission documents, despite promising the lot.
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Bear:
I would rate this loss as being up there with being able to walk normal distances. You don’t realise the importance of food to social interaction till it goes.
Bear,
the things that we experience through the physical side of our selves and which we probably take for granted because we’re busy or self-absorbed or not living in the moment, and then only fully understood when lost, whether through illness, injury or because the state decides one day that none of that stuff is important anymore.
Meals, together, sort of sum it up. Encompassing every part of the human self in touch, taste, smell, sight and sound.
The other night MT was talking about what he was having for dinner and which he’d cooked, and it sounded delicious. I wanted to be invited; I suppose part of it was to be sitting at a table with another, drinking a nice red and enjoying all of it. Memories help, and friends; even ones on-line. 👍
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<blockquote>Roger says:
August 22, 2021 at 9:50 am
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The “pandemic” has revealed a truth hitherto only known by lawyers but now plain to anyone paying attention: without a properly drafted Bill of Rights Australians have very few rights guaranteed by law.</blockquote>
How about if we rely on Section 303 of Part 7.62 (attempted repealed by J.W. Howard)?
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If you want a laugh, here’s ScoMo:
Scott Morrison says Covid-19 shift needed to focus on hospitalisations, not cases (news.com.au)
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Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).
We are at the end times – the real end times – not that “beam me up, scotty,” nonsense. Biden is gone both in mental ability and in electoral support. The Dems will be cowered in Congress and in the Senate. That’s not to say that they still won’t try things on the electorate but the voters have, in the main, like here, stopped listening. Trump will be back and he will have learnt a lot in his four year hiatus. Get ready for Super Duper Trump!
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Barry @ 12:43. Well, don’t leave us hanging…🙂
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a reader says:
August 22, 2021 at 12:49 pm
But never said all that other stuff – masks etc and vaccination passports – won’t be required.
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